Automatic hair clipping attachment



m 1934- D. w. BULLER ,9 ,9

AUTOMATIC HAIR CLIPPING ATTACHMENT Filed Sept. 20, 1932 I 4 j v IAIVENTOR. 211 0 Wfiz/Zzzz l BY *4 RNEYS.

ATTO Patented Dec. 4, 1934 AUTOMATIC HAIR CLIPPING ATTACHMENT 7 David W. Buller, Reedley. Calif Application September 20, 1932, Serial No..634,( l51 My;invention relates to improvements in automatic hair clipping attachments, and it consists of the combinations, constructions and arrangements hereinafter described and claimed.

An objectof my invention is to provide an attachment for a hair clipper which Will auto matically and gradually move the cutters away from the head as the clipper is moved upwardly. The means for moving the cutters away from the head is controlled by the angular position the clipper assumes with respect to the head. The device can be adjusted so as to change the cutting operation, that is a fine cut or a coarse cut may be eifected, and still the automatic and gradual moving away of i the clipper from the head can be employed.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the type described which may be attached to a standard hair clipper'without altering the construction. The device is simple in construction, and is durable and efiicient for the purpose intended.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and the novel featuresof the device will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invention. is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming 'a part of this application, in which 1 Figure 1 is a side view of a hair clipper showing a device "operatively applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the device;

Figure 3 is a side view similar to Figure 1, but showing the parts of the attachment in a different position; and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the attachment per se.

In carrying out my invention I make use of a standard hair clipper indicated generally at 1. The clipper has an adjustable toothed guard 2, and a reciprocating cutter 3 associated with the guard. The parts thus far described are standard and form no part of my invention except insofar as they cooperate with the parts now to be described.

The attachment comprises a U-shaped member 4 that has a portion 5 underlying the guard 2 and legs 6 which straddle the sides of the hair clipper, and are secured in place by screws 7 or other suitable fastening means.

' The U-shaped member has pivot points 8 0 receiving a spacing member 9. The member 9 is U-shaped and has a portion 10 (see Figures 1 and 4) for contacting with the person's head. Side :pieces 11 are integral with the portion 10 and are pivoted to the 1u-jshaped member .Lat 8. The side pieces 11 project beyond the pivots 9.8 and have their free ends .pivotallysecuredat 12 to a forked member 13. The forked member 13 has its bifurcated end provided withpivots 1'4 :and an auxiliary comb guard '15 is pivoted to the member 13.

The forked member 13 has a handle ,16 provided with a slot 17 having anenlanged portion 18. A link 19 with a spherical =head 201has its head passed through the enlarged slot-portion 18. The link is slidably (received in "the slot 17, and the handle 16 has a portion :21 bent backupon itself for yieldingly engaging with the head 20. In thismanner the head is adjustably secured to the handle and has a swinging movement in a vertical plane.

The other end of the link 19 is removably secured to a: base. 22, the base in iturn being carried by a U shaped bracket 23 that "is se-.

cured to the hair clipper 1. The base 22:11am plurality of openings 24 designed to receive the bent end 25 of the link 19 (see 'Figure 2); A spring 26 is secured to the link 19 and'is disposed on the opposite side of the base 22 and in this way the link is adjustably secured to the :base with freedomof swinging movement. Any other type of link connection between the base 22 and the handle 16 can be employed and I do not wish to be confined to the particular showin just described.

From .the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood.

When the operator wishes to clip close to the head the parts of the attachment are arranged in the position shown in Figure 1. The auxiliary comb guard 15 will be disposed adjacent to the guard 2, and this will permit a close clipping of the hair. The operator in now moving the hair clipper upwardly will at the same time slowly swing the clipper from the position shown in Figure 1 into the angular position shown in Figure 3. During this swinging of the clipper the spacing member 9 has its portion 10 kept in contact with the head. The result will be a swinging of the member 9 in a counter-clockwise direction about the pivots 8. This will gradually move the auxiliary guard 15 away from the guard 2 and the result will be that the hair clipper will gradually keep cutting the hair at points further and further away from the scalp.

It will, therefore, be seen by this attachment that the hair can be clipped so that it will be short at the base of the neck, and then will gradually lengthen at higher points on the head. The hair at the place where the clippers leave off cutting will be long enough to permit the operator to use the coarse end of a comb if he desires, and scissors for cutting the rest of the hair. Without the attachment it is extremely difllcult for the operator to clip the hair with the scissors so as not to show a line of demarcation between the place where the hair is clipped with the scissors and the place where the hair is cut with the clippers.

It is obvious that the forked member 13 can be attached tothe guard 2 by links not shown, and in this way have the guard 2 move and do away with the auxiliary guard 15. It is'also obvious that the link connection between the handle 16 and the base 22 can be disposed at the sides of i the hair clipper instead of in'th'e middle as illustrated.

While I have shown only the preferred form of my invention, it should be understood that various changes or modifications may be made within the scopeof the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The frame 6 can be adjusted laterally by the screws 7 for positioning the teeth 15 properly with respect to the teeth 2. The swinging ofthe clipper body from the position shown in Figure 1 into the position shown in Figure, 3 will .notonly move the guard 5 away from the clipper teeth 2 so as to increase the distance between the guard and teeth, but the guard will be moved forwardly in advance of the teeth 2. This will cause the guard to ride over any bump in the head ort-"roll of flesh and to prevent the clipper teeth from cutting too close, and the result willbe a uniform shingling of the hair. l

I claim:

1. The combination witha hair clipperhaving reciprocating teeth, of a spacer pivoted to' the clipper and designed to bear against a persons head, a guard also designed .to bear against the head, and means pivotally connected to the clip per and connecting the guard with the spacer for positioning the guard close to the clipper teeth when the clipper body is disposedsubstantially perpendicular to the surface being clipped, whereby a close clipping of hair is accomplished, the guard being gradually moved further away from the teeth as the clipper body is gradually swung toward a plane paralleling thetsurface being clipped, the guard and spacer continuously contacting with the head during this swinging movement of the clipper body and being slidable over the head, whereby a shingling of the hair is effected, the abruptness of the shingling depending upon how rapidly the clipper body is swung about the spacer and guard as the clipper is moved along the surface.

2. The combination with a hair clipper having reciprocating teeth, of a spacer pivoted to the clipper and designed to slide over the head, a fork pivoted to the spacer, an adjustable link connecting the fork with the clipper body, and a guard pivoted to the fork and designed to contact with 'a persons head, whereby the spacer and guard constitute a frame held against the head by the barber during-the clipping operation, the clipper body being swingable in the frame by the barber independent 'of themovement of the frame over the head, the swinging of the clipper body varying the distance of the clipper teeth from the head in direct ratio-to the angular position of the'body intheframe.

- 3. The combination with a hair clipper having reciprocating teeth, a spacer pivoted to theclipper and designed to slide over the head, a fork pivoted to the spacer, a link pivoted to the fork and "adjustably pivoted to the clipper, and a guard pivoted to the fork and designed to slide over the head,-said guard gradually increasing the distance between the head and the teeth as the clipper is gradually swung from a position substantially perpendicular to the surface of the head into a position wherethe clipper is substantially at an angle of 45 to the persons head.

' 4. Thecombination with a hair clipper having reciprocating teeth, of a spacer pivoted to the clipper and designed to ride'over the head, a guard designed to ride over a persons head, and means pivotally connected to the clipper and connecting the guard with the spacer for positioning the guard close to the clipper teeth when the clipper body is disposed substantially perpendicular to the surface being' clipped, the guard being gradually moved away from the teeth and also forwardly. of the teeth as the clipper body is gradually swung toward'aplane substantially paralleling the surface being clipped, the guard and spacer continuously contacting with the head during this swinging movement of the clipper body. DAVID W. BULLER. 

